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Ten days have passed since the gruesome killings of 26 people at Pahalgam on April 22. In the following days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a lead to the boiling mood of the nation by announcing a number of measures, including the suspension of the 1960-signed Indus Water Treaty, followed by Pakistan’s retaliation through its own set of counter-measures, including coming out of the 1972 Shimla Agreement.

The terrorist outrage in Pahalgam, which left 26 tourists dead, has united the whole country in condemnation and grief. 25 families spread across India and one family in Nepal saw a beloved family member being murdered in cold blood. By choosing to kill people after ascertaining their religion, the terrorists hoped to create a communal divide and fuel communal tensions in the country. But the opposite has happened. There has been a spontaneous outpouring of anger and condemnation by all sections of society and people, irrespective of caste and creed, have spoken with one voice. At the political level, all political parties have expressed their resolve to unitedly face this dastardly attack.

By announcing to conduct caste census in India after a gap of about a century, the last being conducted with the Census 1931, PM Narendra Modi led government has not only done away with the independent India’s historical decision not to have caste census at all, but also the BJP’s historical position against conducting caste census, chiefly out of the fear that such an exercise may reinforce the caste system. The decision marks a significant shift in India’s policy that is bound to impact all walks of life–especially the politics, economics, and the social conduct.

NEW YORK: The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta forecast a sharp decline of 2.7% for US GDP in the first quarter of 2025. That would mark the worst quarter since the Covid era in mid-2020.

The more the three armed forces’ chiefs sit on a decision to strike at Pakistan with uncommon force, the more the chance Pakistan will escape with inconsequential punishment. Point being made is that in the Indian context, a decision on whether or not to go to war is taken by the civilian leadership, but if the civilian leadership says it has left the decision to the armed forces, it's a slip of the tongue!

The killing of 26 tourists and injuring of many more tourists in Baisaran in Kashmir was a tragedy beyond words. The terrorists claimed to be part of Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba’s front ‘The Resistance Front’, who have taken the responsibility for this dastardly act. They identified people by religion and brutally fired upon them. One of the people killed was Syed Adil Shah, the one who used to take the tourists on pony.

NEW YORK: On December 2, 1823, US president James Monroe declared that the American continent “was no longer to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.” With these apparently well-intended words, the “Monroe Doctrine” was born, which eventually became synonymous with US imperialism in Latin America.

NEW YORK: In advance of presidential elections on August 17, 2025, Bolivia’s Supreme Electoral Council on April 17 registered 11 political parties and five electoral coalitions. It will soon announce the final list of presidential candidates. Incumbent President Luis Arce, elected in 2020, candidate for the Movement to Socialism Party (MAS) and former economics minister under President Evo Morales, will head the list.

New Delhi: The Cerebral Palsy Sports Federation of India (CPSFI) along with World Abilitysport are holding an International Awareness Seminar on Classification in Para Sports here. The two-day event will be held 29–30 May 2025 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

Trump’s aggressive tariff war with China – built on a throwback protectionist logic more suited to the 1800s than today’s intertwined economy – has driven Chinese firms to redeploy their strategies. Major Chinese exporters, now facing punitive U.S. tariffs as high as 145 percent, are desperately seeking other markets and partners. Chinese companies are said to be “amenable to conditions requiring stake dilution in favour of Indian entities” – in other words, they’re finally willing to sell meaningful slices of their businesses to Indian partners in order to enter India’s fast growing market.